INTERVIEW September 2021 User Interview

[ARandomFan]

Welcome all back to another User Interview of the Month! This month, y'all voted for whoever you wanted and the user that got voted was... The one and only @Frandae!!!!
Without further ado, let's get started~​

• How did you learn about H+? Why did you join?

A friend of mine told me they were opening this forum and I just followed them blindly since I trust and admire them a lot tbh; I already have been in other forums so yeah I just wanted to be with that one friend (and at that time I also wished to work with them, which at the end, I indeed did).

• What is your favorite thing about H+?

It’s not specifically about H+ but more like forums as a whole: badges; since I was little I always collected stuff (small dolls, cards, stickers...etc.) so I guess collecting my favourite idols, videogames, and/or anime characters and displaying them with pretty pictures also adds to my “collector nature” lmao. +Cards, which were recently added into the forum, would fall into this category too.

• Which section and/or thread do you spend the most time in (on H+)?

I mainly spend all the time in the Korean Entertainment Artists section updating the threads I OP (I also happen to OP one artist thread in the Chinese Entertainment Artists and one actor thread in Film, TV & Video too). So yeah, for now I’m just updating several threads with information about my favourite artists and stuff.

• If you could be another user for a day who’d you be and why?

Tough one but I would say Stannie; I would give myself some orbs and/or plus coins to buy more +Cards to be honest lol. They also seem to be very kind and friendly so I’m sure we would get along and I wouldn’t mind being them for one day.

• How did you come up with your username?

My username is just the combination of my usual nickname (Fran) + my first ult ever (Jongdae/Chen) so Fran + dae = Frandae; yeah pretty unoriginal I know lmao.

• When did you get into kpop/Asian entertainment?

Summer of 2016! One of my friends introduced me to EXO (one of my ults) with the song “Call Me Baby” and they just went like: pick a member while listening to the song just for fun! (I obviously picked Chen lol); then some weeks later EXO released Monster (their best song tbh) and the rest is story!

• Who is your bias and bias group?

I have a lot of bias and bias groups but the “main” ones would be:

EXO - Chen (obviously lol)
Girls’ Generation (SNSD) - Hyoyeon
ASTRO - Eunwoo
Weki Meki - Doyeon
EXID - Hani & Solji
SHINee - Minho
Red Velvet - Yeri

And for soloists I would say Ong Seongwu and Somi
I also bias Zhu Zhengting even though I don't keep up with his group that much, just with him alone tbh.

• Favorite kpop/jpop/cpop mv?

For kpop it would be ASTRO’s “All Night”; I love flowers/spring aesthetics and it also uses a lot of different shades of greens, pinks and purples (my favourite colours). It also has this “angelic” (?) vibe I really like (plus obviously it also helps it’s my favourite ASTRO song of all time).




As for cpop it would be (shockingly I know lol) Zhu Zhengting’s “Flip”; it’s very chic, elegant and mysterious; I didn’t think he would go for this kind of concept so it surprised me and I liked it a lot. Plus the use of colours, lights and shadows there is really good imo.




And for jpop, I don’t follow any group or soloist so I can't choose any, sorry!

• Favorite non-Asian artist?

As queen Yeri (Red Velvet) once said: “I love Ariana Grande and I really want to meet her before I die” lmao. So yup her; also this is additional extra information no one asked but my favourite song of hers is “Tattooed Heart”.

• If you could make one wish, what wish would you make?

This is going to be a very boring (and predictable) wish I know but I would like for this pandemic to be over and that people in general could have more health and happiness in these hard times.

• What superpower would you like to have?

At first I would have said Teleportation since I am very lazy to walk from one point to another, but then again if I had that superpower, it wouldn’t be very healthy for me soo I would pick Healing (if that could be considered as a superpower lol), as in being able to heal wounds and pain in general.

• What is your go-to joke?

I don’t think I have a defined “go-to joke” but one thing that I always find myself doing is when someone says one specific word and/or sentence, I always try to link it with a song I know and sing it out loud just for the funsies (I only do this with people that know me and they are considered as friends for obvious reasons lol).

-----------------------------------------------------------
Thank you to Frandae for being wonderful interviewee! And thank you Hallyuplus for reading!
See ya next interview~

GFX/INTERVIEW CONDUCTED BY @ARandomFan​

 

[soozie]

Nice interview!

I didn’t realize you’re a Chen fan Fran I thought the dae stands for sundae this whole time fnfnnf

We should get Chen’s card added to the next card+ edition

 

[UMJI MOODS]

What a sweet and charming interview.​

 

[kimsguardian]

2016? i thought you were into kpop decades ago~
turns out frandae is for jongdae huh, now i get after all these years
thanks for this nice interview btw!

 

[Lilac]

Such a pleasant read- congrats Fran on getting this interview i have the same predictable wish too jdkslf

Thanks for keeping H+ active by updating various artists' threads